Oracle has released an update for the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 30 (Support Repository Update), which offers a series of additional fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes in the update, simply execute the command 'pkg update'.
In the new release:
- Support for the UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention) protection mechanism provided by Intel processors has been added. When this mode is enabled at the CPU level, the execution of certain instructions, such as SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW, and STR, is prohibited in user space, which can be utilized in attacks aimed at escalating privileges in the system.
- New branches of Python 3.9 and Perl 5.32.0 have been included.
- The driver vds (virtual disk server) has added support for klog.
- HMP (Hardware Management Pack) has been updated to version 2.4.7.1.
- New Python modules for supporting libxml2, mod_wsgi, and net-snmp have been included.
- A package with the library libpng 1.6 has been added.
- Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.6.2 has been updated with support for audit logging in LDoms, a significant increase in the performance of all vsan MASK operations, support for klog, and multi-level PVLAN.
- Individual components of the GNOME desktop (gnome-menus, gsettings-desktop-schemas, yelp) have been updated to releases 3.36 and 3.38.
- Many packages have been updated, including LLVM/Clang 11.0.0, CUPS 2.3.3, OpenSSH 8.2, dconf 0.38.0, gupnp 1.0.6, lftp 4.9.2, libnotify 0.7.9, mod_jk 1.2.48, mod_wsgi 4.7.1, nss 3.57, pulseaudio 13.99.1, tcsh 6.22.03, xorg-driver-vesa 2.5.0.
- Software versions have been updated to fix vulnerabilities: Ant 1.10.9, Firefox 78.6.0esr, Node.js 12 12.19.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1i, Samba 4.13.1, Thunderbird 78.6.0, openldap2.4.55, pip 20.2.4, Ghostscript 9.53.3, libpng, libxml, sudo, tcpdump, vnc, xorg-server.
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